Three Letters on the Generation of the Manhood of the Son of God

Excerpt from Three Letters on the Generation of the Manhood of the Son of God: A Review of the Discussion on This Subject, and an Essay on the Nature and Cause of the Death of Christ, With Notes

IN your first number, I see much said about the bod}r assumed by the Son of God, and the nature of the flesh of which it was constituted, and the condition it was in when he assumed it; and from the whole of the statements, I conclude, that thus much is meant; namely, that the body prepared by God for his Son was substantially the flesh of sin, and not only having some likeness to it; but that at his resurrection a change ensued in it, so as that it then became sinless. Thus, for example; Mr. Irving says, in your 24th page, Christ, for the love he bore the human soul, consented to become a servant to her, and to be clothed with her body of sin and death.' God prepared a body of fallen humanity for his Son, through the power of the Holy Ghost.' And, in page 30, beavers of Christ, that 'he hears their naked and complete sufferings without a remedy, in order that, after he had sucked all the poison of suffering out, and into himself, into his body compressed all the venom of sin, he might, by dying, make it all die, and by rising again, triumph over it in the souls of his people, who, if they bad faith, would have no suffering, as they would have no Sin.' And then, in the theological department, I find it stated at page 98, that the Son of God did by the Holy Ghost take a soul; and with and in that soul, hedid take flesh and blood of the Virgin,' that is, as it follows, 'fallen flesh.' To this it is added, that his perfect holiness, in the human nature, is as necessary to the orthodox faith, as is the unlzolz'ness ofthe nature which he took.' And in the 99th page, Iread, that his days of flesh put him into possession of our pitiful case, which he had undertaken to advocate; his taking boly flea/z at the reszw'reclz'on, brought him up into God's presence, to advocate it there. Each is needful in its place to our Mediator; both must meet together in our High Priest; and this hath ever been the doc trine of the orthodox church, and must remain so unto the end.'

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